Yellow Earth

Name: Yellow Earth
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Released: 1984-08-19
Duration: 91 min
Cast: Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan, Wang Xueqi, Xue Bai

After tradition… comes revolution.

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Release Date

8/19/1984

Runtime

91 mins

Genres

Drama History Music

Overview

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust…

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Released

Original Language

Chinese

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A quietly meditative portrait of collision between old and new: a communist soldier descends into a drought-stricken peasant village to harvest folk songs, only to discover that progress and tradition may be incompatible. The film moves at the pace of seasons and slow revelation, finding both beauty and tragedy in the gap between political ideals and human reality.